ALPURI: Shujaat Ali of the Shangla district has defended his Master of Philosophy (MPhil) thesis at the Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology.
Hailing from the Meerah area of the district, he studied at the Urdu Department of the university. His supervisor was Dr Ghuncha Begum, chairperson of the department. Prof Dr Basmeena Siraj, head of the Department for Urdu Studies, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, was his external examiner. Prof Dr Muhammad Imtiaz, faculty members, students and others were present at the defence.